Água Branca celebrates Água Santa – 03/22/2023 – Juca Kfouri

If Bragantino were Palmeiras’ opponent in the state decision, at least we would have a final between teams from the Brazilian Série A.

But the penalties wanted it to be the brave Água Santa, which doesn’t even have a national division — and will only compete in Série D in 2024.

Because what was left in the Diadema team, born in the floodplain four decades ago, what the Bragança Paulista team lacks is not new: heart.

The feeling conveyed by the recent Bragantino teams is that of players being fattened up to be sold and that the results of the games, decisive or not, are mere details.

So much so that Massa Bruta (delicate?) also fell to Ypiranga, from Série C, from Rio Grande do Sul, Erechim, in the Copa do Brasil.

That left Palmeiras, whose headquarters, for those who don’t know, is in the Água Branca neighborhood, 36.8 kilometers from the city of Água Santa, who had already committed the feat of dispatching São Paulo, in the green house, and also eliminated Braga , in Vila Belmiro.

Who knows, maybe take the home team for the first leg of the finals to Itaquera, although it is 52 kilometers from his home, closer to Morumbi (15 km).

In any case, the so-called Neptune put the D of ABCD in São Paulo in history by repeating a feat similar to that of Santo André, São Bernardo and São Caetano, which also had their moments of glory.

OA, champion of the Copa do Brasil against Flamengo, in Maracanã, in 2004; B was in second place in the general classification of the state this season and C was even vice-champion of Libertadores, in 2002.

Ah, yes, Bragantino root ended up champion of São Paulo in 1990, against Novorizontino, and Brazilian runner-up the following year.

On the Palmeiras side, everything is a party, even if the next two weeks pass, until April 2, the date of the first final, with the correct speech about the lack of early winners.
If it was just a game, it would make sense. In two, no way.

Although the palmeirense has the trauma of losing, in two games, the decision of the 1986 Paulista Championship.

Then, Inter de Limeira, led by coach Pepe, the historic former left-winger of Santos, won the first São Paulo title for a club from the interior, by tying the first game without goals and winning afterwards by 2 to 1, always in the Morumbi, with more than 78,000 fans —with which alviverde completed a ten-year fast without titles, a queue that only ended, at 17, in 1993.

“History repeats itself twice,” said the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. And his companion Karl Marx added: “The first time as a tragedy; the second as a farce.”

Disagree is necessary
The dear neighbor Paulo Vinícius Coelho wrote that “the increase of 48% of the public in the Campeonato Paulista indicates the error of having said, for 20 years, that the state championship is worth nothing”.

A tournament with an average of less than 13,000 fans per game is still not worth much to the big ones, who owe the capacity of their stadiums to the plans of supporters, each year more understood as the way to be in important games.

The Paulistinha is worth so little that the São Paulo player still considers himself abstinent from cups, although he won it two years ago.

The legacy of the state teams continues to be to prevent the Brazilian Championship from being played only, or almost only, on weekends.

States are for the little ones and all year round.

Date venia, PVC.

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